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News Articles: Forsyth County

Queenie the dog was adopted after she spent more than two years in a Georgia shelter. Screengrab from the Humane Society of Forsyth County, GA's video on Facebook

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  • Animals

‘Sweet’ dog in shelter for 800 days ‘just wanted to be loved.’ Then came good news

After waiting 800 days in a Georgia shelter, good news finally came for this mama dog.

October 24, 2024
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By:
  • Simone Jasper
Banner for the opera "Forsyth County is Flooding (With the Joy of Lake Lanier.)" (The Atlanta Opera)

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  • Music

New Atlanta Opera production 'Forsyth County is Flooding' is a dark comedy about Georgia history

The one act opera, titled "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)," is billed as a dark comedy.  The production reflects on an environmental and spiritual retribution around two events in Georgia history: The forced exile of black residents from Forsyth County in 1912, and the decades-later creation of Lake Lanier, a manmade recreational lake in reservoir that covers a large part of North Georgia, including a town at the center of the events in 1912 known as Oscarville.

June 14, 2024
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By:
  • Devon Zwald
Matthew Pesce holds a framed photo of him and his son, who died by suicide.

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  • Mental Health

Forsyth County commissioners are split on funding mental health care residents say is badly needed

Commissioners in Forsyth County are split on whether to use federal COVID relief funds for mental health care now that the planned building costs exceed the budget by $12 million. The plan is now up in the air, to the frustration of many residents.

February 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The U.S. Department of Education found book removals in Forsyth County Schools may have caused harm to students.

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  • News

Civil rights investigation into Forsyth County Schools wraps up

The U.S. Department of Education wrapped up an investigation Friday into Forsyth County Schools' removal of certain books from libraries. 

May 23, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
People visit a booth set up by Fulton County to recruit new poll workers at the Alpharetta Farmers Market on Sept. 10, 2022, in Alpharetta, Ga. Lies about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere in the nation for the upcoming midterm elections.

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  • Elections

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms

False claims about the 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere for the upcoming midterm elections, but for different reasons.

September 26, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Queen Elizabeth's funeral

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Queen Elizabeth's funeral; Forsyth GOP cancels protest; Walker lowers expectations

Monday on Political Rewind: In a flyer for a now-canceled anti-Abrams protest, the Forsyth County GOP warn that Democrats were "crossing over our county border." Some say the move was a reminder of the county's racist history. Plus, Walker paints himself as an underdog ahead of the debate with Warnock. 

September 19, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Joe Marinich (right), the Republican chairman of Forsyth County, Ga., poses at the party headquarters with Bea Wilson and Ed Murray, two recently trained poll watchers.

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  • National

Georgia voters showed us these 3 things about the fall election

NPR asked 36 people in Democratic-leaning Gwinnett County and Republican-leaning Forsyth County, Ga., what's on their minds heading into the midterms. Their answers are relevant to the entire country.

May 22, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Joe Marinich (right), the Republican chairman of Forsyth County, Ga., poses at the party headquarters with Bea Wilson and Ed Murray, two recently trained poll watchers.

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  • National

Georgia voters showed us these 3 things about the fall election

NPR asked 36 people in Democratic-leaning Gwinnett County and Republican-leaning Forsyth County, Ga., what's on their minds heading into the midterms. Their answers are relevant to the entire country.

May 22, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Students in library

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  • Education

LGBTQ community, people of color in the crosshairs of banned book movement

One school district in Georgia, Forsyth County Schools, banned 13 books, most of them pertaining to LGBTQ+ topics or centered on marginalized characters.

April 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ariana Figueroa
A group of five Forsyth County high school students gather at the Forsyth Central High School track for an Out of the Darkness walk March 26, 2022.

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  • Mental Health

She lost her brother and a classmate. So this high school senior says we need to talk about suicide

Ali Norris organized a countywide Out of the Darkness walk to raise awareness of and money for suicide prevention after losing her brother and a classmate.

Two months before the walk, a teacher in her school died by suicide.

April 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Panelists Durwood Snead, Congresswoman Carolyn Bourdeaux, Descendents Elon Butts Osby, James B Knuckels, Judge Rodney Harris, and Deacon Billy Green speak at Poplar Baptist Church about the 1912 Forsyth County Racial Cleansing.

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  • Race

Descendants of victims of Forsyth County's 1912 racial cleansing return to share family history

One hundred years after white mobs in Forsyth County pushed out Black residents during the county's 1912 racial cleansing, descendants are returning to ensure their family stories are told.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
The oldest living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre Viola Fletcher listens as President Joe Biden speaks to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, at the Greenwood Cultural Center, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: The Parallels Between Tulsa, Atlanta, The Wealth Gap And Racial Justice

Wednesday on Political Rewind: President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre in Oklahoma yesterday. What is being done to address those horrendous parts of our history — here in Georgia and across the country?

June 02, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
 A dead body was found inside the bathroom of a Walmart store in Georgia. Police were trying to determine Monday what happened.

Georgia Walmart Employees Find Dead Body In Store Bathroom

A dead body was found inside the bathroom of a Walmart store in Georgia. Police were trying to determine Monday what happened. News outlets reported...

February 18, 2020
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By:
  • Associated Press
Jennifer Hodge lights candles Tuesday night at the second annual teacup memorial held at the University of North Georgia in Cumming.

Realtors Use Commissions To Fight Opioid Epidemic

This year, more than 1,400 people in Georgia are expected to die from drug overdoses. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

August 31, 2018
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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